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EXCLUSIVE: On the heels of minting close to a half billion at the global box office from M. Night Shyamalan’s Split and Jordan Peele’s Get Out, Blumhouse is gearing up for Only You, a thriller starring Golden Globe nominee David Oyelowo, and written and to be directed by Mean Creek‘s Jacob Estes.
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On the heels of the interracial marriage story Loving comes A United Kingdom, the true story of another mixed marriage threatened by the political climate. Instead of the 1950s and ’60s Deep South of the landmark Richard and Mildred Loving case, this story takes place in 1947 in London and Botswana (or the British…

David Oyelowo and Daniel Craig bring exceptional technical skill and at times riveting commitment to the roles of Othello and Iago in the off-Broadway revival of the Shakespeare tragedy, which opened tonight at the New York Theatre Workshop. That should not surprise anyone familiar with the fact that the two actors…

The marriage of Botswana (then known as Bechuanaland, a British protectorate) royal family member-turned-independence leader Seretse Khama and his wife Ruth Williams Khama is little known in the U.S.. But their relationship, amid increasingly hateful official racism in neighboring South Africa and the burgeoning…

Selma and A United Kingdom actor David Oyelowo gave an impassioned speech at the BFI London Film Festival's Black Star Symposium on Thursday where he blamed the lack of diversity amongst the UK film industry's top decision-makers as the catalyst for the country's exodus of black talent.
"If you are not part of the…

In Disney’s earnest and lovely Queen Of Katwe, 10-year-oldPhiona Mutesi sells corn on the streets of her impoverished Ugandan neighborhood of Katwe in Kampala. Her mother Harriet sells vegetables, trying to make a decent enough living to bring up her kids, but when Phiona discovers a strong aptitude for the game of…

Amma Asante's A United Kingdom took its premiere bow at Toronto on Friday night, starring David Oyelowo as Bechuanaland prince Seretse Khama, exiled from his homeland and prevented from taking his place as king, all for the love of his wife: a white British woman, Ruth Williams, played by Rosamund Pike. Greeted warmly…

The BFI London Film Festival is turning the spotlight on diversity for its 60th edition next month and has tapped British actor and producer David Oyelowo to lead the fest's headline industry event, the Black Star Symposium.
The event, which will take place on October 6 (the day after Amma Asante's A United Kingdom…

On Day 1 of the Toronto International Film Festival, the high-powered casts of several TIFF premiering films came by the Deadline Studio at Calii Love, ranging from Oliver Stone’s Snowden, to Ewan McGregor’s Philip Roth adaptation American Pastoral, to Amma Asante’s winning crowd-pleaser A United Kingdom. Talent…

EXCLUSIVE:Selma director Ava DuVernay and actor David Oyelowo will serve this year as the ambassadors for the Urbanworld Film Festival which takes place September 21-25 in New York. The festival, launched in August 1997 by a former Miramax and October Films executive Stacy Spikes, features features, documentaries…

Putting aside any Oscar action, on which my colleague Pete Hammond has a close eye, the rapidly accumulating lineup for the 41st Toronto International Film Festival, set to run September 8-18, brings some twists, turns and potential intrigue to a fall film season that clearly has no intention of waiting for the fall…